I have GS3 i9300 I got from someone off of craigslist. The phone was working fine when I tested it. I guess the forgot to take off a passcode . (Yes I feel dumb) . So now I'm locked out of the phone. When I tried to put it in download mode to reset the whole phone new , I get the dead android and the red triangle . Help Please ! I'll even donate ! :crying:
Looks like you need to read and understand the basics before you do anything else.
Go to general forum, stickies and learn about recovery mode and how to factory reset.
boomboomer said:
Looks like you need to read and understand the basics before you do anything else.
Go to general forum, stickies and learn about recovery mode and how to factory reset.
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I was able to fix it. But there's some problems i'm still encountering. For one my pc won't recognize the phone. I have the drivers / kies installed and still nothing .It only charges.
Basics read first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
Critical you read the first two posts
For one my pc won't recognize the phone. I have the drivers / kies installed and still nothing .It only charges.
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hi everybody!
all the steps below were taken from galaxys2root.com as well as the files
i have i9100 with a stock rom 2.3.4 (ki4) (and 1.4gb of free memory-maybe that was the problem).
yesterday i rooted it (everything was fine) and then i installed CWM recovery 4.0.1.4 through odin v1.85 (went fine too) and then on my way to find myself a new rom i decided to backup my current one with cwm. then i entered cwm by pressing vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup". it backed up the system and then moved on to the data and thats where it got stuck for like an hour.... from the guide i understood that it shouldnt take more than 10 min- 15 min top so i figured that im having a problem, i tuned off the phone by pressing pwr button and turn it back on, then the phone got stuck on the sgs2 screen with the triangle so i turned it off again----> this time it didnt came back on, and not responding to download mode neither to polling battery out or not even by connecting to usb and charger- just dead!
how is it possible? and what should i do to bring it back to life? (and myself)
thank you very much(please help...), and sorry for the long text and the bad english
do you have usb jig with you?
i assume you brick your phone.
read my thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402286 carefully. anyway, usb jig will not harm your device
No download mode = try jig. Jig doesn't work = JTAG repair by 3rd party repairer (cheaper option) or JTAG repair my Samsung (more expensive option).
thank you,
no dont have one but i ordered from ebay.
is there a chance that my battery died and as a result of the two my phone wont respond?
Possible but highly unlikely. I guess you might as well try a new battery, at worst you'll have a spare when you get the phone repaired.
Fairly common problem go to forum xx download something and follow the instructions dont work go to a totally different forum and ask why ???
CWM 4 very old .
vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup why ??? thats download mode
My guess would be wrong instructions/firmware .
The other question to ask is it a i9100 or a different version .
jje
i really hope thats the problem, im going to a friend now to try with his battry.
but really how is it possible that my phone is bricked when i didnt even try to flash a new rom, and more than that it happened in the backup process when all the cwm does is a copy operation... so what really had happened?
JJEgan said:
Fairly common problem go to forum xx download something and follow the instructions dont work go to a totally different forum and ask why ???
CWM 4 very old .
vol-down+pwr+home and hit "backup why ??? thats download mode
My guess would be wrong instructions/firmware .
The other question to ask is it a i9100 or a different version .
jje
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to be honest i was too lazy to search here (which im not going to be now)
thats what he was doing in the video (it did went in cwm)
and my phone is i9100 i bought it in the UK
Wrong firmware faulty firmware wrong instructions any number of things can go wrong with a flash . But it is very odd that it happens in backup recovery yes but backup very rare .
jje
JJEgan said:
Wrong firmware faulty firmware wrong instructions any number of things can go wrong with a flash . But it is very odd that it happens in backup recovery yes but backup very rare .
jje
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so there is a slight chance that its the battery right?
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so there is a slight chance that its the battery right?
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no, there is not.
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ok the battery swap doesnt work so its not the problem,
any other ideas??? (except usb jig and jtag)
thanks
Jig <=1% chance of getting you into download mode, JTAG = 100% chance of fixing it. Other options = 0.
MistahBungle said:
Jig <=1% chance of getting you into download mode, JTAG = 100% chance of fixing it. Other options = 0.
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I should say jog = 50% chances of getting into download mode. JTAG is more like a solution for hard brick(totally unresponsive, bootloader totally mess up, brain system totally corrupted).
Base on my understanding, getting yourself a hard brick is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. If you go through zedomax(galaxys2root.com owner), he mentioned that he flashed all his android device countless time. All he got is just a couple of soft brick. Never a hard brick. Don't waste your money first. Invest on a cheap usb jig which only cost around 2 dollar, compare to JTAG services which cost 50 dollar.
If usb jig doesn't work, try to go for warranty , see whether they charge you or not. If warranty doesn't cover you and cost less than 50 dollar to repair, go for it.
Only go for JTAG if every effort above don't work.
Warning: JTAG is just a service that reinject Samsung firmware into your device. If your phone has hardware failure, I don't think they can help. Unless they provide hardware repair now. If you wanna be sure, email or call them up to see if they provide hardware repair/replace as well, just in case it is a hardware failure cases.
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i know its a very rare situation but it happened. I've tried the jig and it didnt work, then i decided to send it back to the store and they told me they have sent it to the manufacturer, now im waiting...
Hey guys,
I see that there are a few incidents of this occurring having read the forum and Google. Some advise the device needs 'j-tagged' others seem to have been able to eventually gain access to the Recovery mode.
Here's the low down; S3 was flashed with Cyanogenmod 10.1 and was working fine for months. Last night, as normal, I switched over batteries to a fully charged one. On restarting the phone I was presented with warning about a firmware upgrade that went wrong (can't remember the exact wording as it was late and I was in bed at this stage).
On seeing the warning I tried restarting the phone but same again and then I set it down to deal with it today. Woke up to a white screen and grey lines. I can't get into Recovery mode.
Now I didn't try to upgrade the firmware or anything else, this message just appeared upon changing the batteries and therefore a power cycle.
Odin seems to see the device on Com 5 but after that I am not sure what else to do.
How can I flash a new ROM without Recovery access? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance guys,
Reply to identical question .
Read the stickied basic faqs and guides .
Flash a stock rom via Odin .
JJEgan said:
Reply to identical question .
Read the stickied basic faqs and guides .
Flash a stock rom via Odin .
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Cheers mate.
OP, there was no reason to post this thread twice. Please in the future 1. search before posting. 2. Post only once, not multiple times
Please take a moment to review the forums Rules
Problem sorted. Thanks
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Problem sorted. Thanks
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Just an update for those that may have the same issue.
Sent the phone back to Samsung and they replaced the motherboard ("PBA MAIN") and LCD ("OCTA LCD SVC/RW").
Not sure why they replaced the LCD unless they damaged it replacing the motherboard? Either way phone was returned in new condition as I had originally had a few marks on the chrome strip around the phone, now gone. So well pleased.
It is a international galaxy s3 with stock rom. Whenever restarting led flashlight is on for few seconds and its booting only in safe mode. So i re flashed stock rom using odin but then also booting in safe mode only. When we enter download mode flashlight is on continuously and in recovery mode the side volume keys are not working so that we cant wipe or do anything in recovery mode. I tried different methods to boot the phone in normal mode but nothing works. I formatted everything sd card, system pre cache dalvik nothing works. Please tell me a solution. Its a hardware or software problem??? Anyone having this problem??:crying:
Basics read first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
Critical you read the first two posts .
JJEgan said:
Basics read first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
Critical you read the first two posts .
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I read the two posts but i didnt find any solution for that if you know pls let me know
Thnx in advance
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Hello !
First of all I want to apologize for my bad english .
I have a samsung galaxy s2 i9100 with 4.1.2 JB , last week the phone did a restart without touching him or something like this , after the restart the phone was stuck with samsung logo and wont turn on , i removed the battery and then he start but today same problem like last week but after i removed the battery the phone still not turn on , it remain with samsung logo . I can't acces recovery mode , only download mode , I've tried with odin i put in PDA last stock rom 4.1.2 and then i start , no errors no nothing , but phone still not pass the samsung logo . Please help me if you can , and again sorry for my bad english .
Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide stickied in General is 'the Bible' for these situations. Find it, try as many of the things in the thread as you need to in order to get a successful Odin flash. These cases are almost always recoverable, and often fixed with perseverance, so it's not a case of trying everything in the thread once & giving up, because that will result in your phone taking an expensive trip to a Samsung service centre/local mobile repair shop or the bin.
That said, I'd be very surprised if you don't get it working again fairly quickly with Hopper's thread.
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Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' guide stickied in General is 'the Bible' for these situations. Find it, try as many of the things in the thread as you need to in order to get a successful Odin flash. These cases are almost always recoverable, and often fixed with perseverance, so it's not a case of trying everything in the thread once & giving up, because that will result in your phone taking an expensive trip to a Samsung service centre/local mobile repair shop or the bin.
That said, I'd be very surprised if you don't get it working again fairly quickly with Hopper's thread.
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Thanks for advice , after three times of flashing , it seem too be good . The phone start and working . Thanks
Edit : its odd for me , but after flashing all my data was intact only 5-6 application has apper ..
Hi guys. I have seen and read through plenty of the same problems regarding the bootloop issue on the forum. I seem to be stuck somewhere different so I post this question. I hope someone can help.
I have a standard S3 I-9305 LTE in South Africa. Not rooted before or any mods. But somehow it started bootlooping a couple of weeks ago. I read and implemented the Recovery Mode- Cleared the cache and then rebooted, and it worked, plenty of times.
But now it has gone into a solid bootloop and i cannot access recovery mode. So read up about Download mode and installed Odin, Kies and the Cf Root file on my PC.
Now when I enter Download mode on the phone, and continue( press Volume Up) after the warning, the device restarts again. This I have done a hundred times and each time removing battery and waiting a couple of minutes. So essentially I cannot get Download mode to function but I do have access to it.
So this I know, this is a software , possible ROM problem, NOT hardware as the device worked perfectly after bootloop issue started.
I did the latest Firmware Upgrade to Android 4.2( i think, i r noob in this) yesterday. This was done on the phone itself under About-check-firmware. The Phone worked fine afterwards but then went into this never ending tormenting bootloop without yielding.
I live far from a proper service centre and I need my phone for work, thus very urgent.
I also have checked if the power button is stuck but it is not.
I am prepared to root the device and install any other ROM, Flash anything that can get me back on.
Any advice please?
Thanks in advance
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
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boomboomer said:
Report your own post and ask a moderator to move it to the i9305 q&a forum.
Sounds like the emmc chip is corrupt or damaged, you may require a new motherboard.
Try plugging your phone into pc before you access download mode, remove the battery before you press volume up.
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Hi Boom,
I have seen you have diligently answered many queries, please to be cautious saying it is a motherboard or hardware issue, it makes peoples heart sink before trying other avenues first. But don't get me wrong, the fact that you took the time to answer me makes you my hero. :good: And thanks.
I will try the other option you gave as I know the phone is fine the answer is just a few tries away.